Led my first hike today up the Franconia Ridge to tag Lafayette and Lincoln for July. Beautiful, hot and humid day for this 8.9 mile hike with 3720 ft of ascent elevation. We finished in 7 hrs 5 min including several nice breaks to soak in the views. Suprisingly, we saw many hikers on the ridge (for a Wednesday) and a couple of dogs that looked overheated. I sure hope the dog owners brought plenty of water for their pets because it was really hot up there!